Started off the day by removing the rack from it's current mountings, bringing the wood inside and installing it (after making some final cuts with the circular saw), and remounting the rack. It fits better than it looked like it was going to, and seems very sturdy. Now it's just a question of whether I need to do any patching to the drywall before the trim can go in, or if it'll cover it all. Keep in mind that this was all just a rough cut by hand with a sawzall, but it's looking pretty close for the most part. I looked into the hole for conduit, but I'm gonna try a slightly different approach and by the time I was this far the plans for the evening were already in place so it was time to clean up. Got the place cleaned reasonably well and then helped brooke get her photo uploading working right. Soon after Dave came over and we finished the cleanup project and watched TV for a bit. There was a sorta interesting show on live tv bloopers, but not much really good. Around 8 Joe, brooke, Betsy, and Trav came over for a bit of a new year party. Betsy even drove all the way back from the middle of nowhere (aka Nebraska) to join us. We played Monopoly (Disney edition so it was interesting to try and keep track of stuff) and it basically ended up being guys vs girls, and they ended up beating us. We ended up watching Brad Pitt get hit by a van (from Meet Joe Black) on repeat for a while, and finally switched that to Animatrix. Shortly before midnight we switched over and watched the ball drop to start off 2004, while commenting how in the 10 minutes we watched I'm pretty sure there were more commercials than content. Quickly after that we switched back and watched the rest of Animatrix and then called it a night. All this was unfortunately interrupted a few times by the receiver shutting itself off, I think for temperature reasons. I haven't had issues before, but I guess it's a good thing I'm gonna be putting it in a rack with some forced airflow around it - it tends to get pretty hot. I'm tired now though, and have marked all my spam from the printmaster read (I had 226 new emails after an hour or so away from the computer - sorta unusual for a holiday) so I'm done.